Almost every family buys one copy of a newspaper everyday at least. Some people subscribe
Almost every family buys one copy of a newspaper every
day at least. Some people subscribe as many as two or three S1. ______
different newspapers. But why people read newspapers? Five S2. ______
hundred years ago, news of important happenings—battles lost
and win, kings of rulers overthrown or killed—took months and S3. ______
even years to travel from one country to other. The news passed S4. ______
by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in
our newspapers of important events that occurs in faraway S5. ______
countries on same day they happen. S6. ______
Apart from supplying news from all over the world,
newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. They are
whether reports, radio, television and film guides, book S7. ______
reviews, stories, and of course, advertisements. They are all
sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large
companies bring attention to their products. They pay the S8. ______
newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising, but it is
worth the money, for news of their products go into almost
every family in the country. Those people who produce
newspaper advertisements are also very important. Money
earned from advertisements makes it possible for it to sell their S9. ______
newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
Newspapers often have information on gardening, cookery
and fashion, as well small but very popular section on jokes and S10. ______
cartoons.
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